Facilities and Capabilities
Specific Equipment

 

 

 

 

 

 

SPECIFIC PROCESSING EQUIPMENT/CAPABILITIES  

These laboratories emphasize wheat products, with capabilities for all cereals.

  • Buhler MLU-202 mill and full range of milling equipment (Brabender Quadrumat Junior, Meadows Milling Co., Baldor Small Mill #L-3703, Pin Mill, Weber Brothers and White Mill, Witt Mill, and Great Western Mfg. Co. Sifters)

  • APV Baker MP19TC-25 twin screw extruder

  • Rheological equipment (Alveograph, Farinograph, Extensigraph, Viscoamylograph, Viskograph-E, Rapid Visco Analyzer, Brookfield Viscometers, National Mixograph)

  • Baking apparatus (National Proofing Oven, National Dough Sheeter/Moulder, National Rotary Oven)

  • Wet cereal chemistry apparatus (electrophoresis units, HPLC, GC, centrifuges, column chromatography units)

  • Appropriate balances, scales, tables and other apparatus and utensils for cereal processing and research